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by GPerson 2mo ago
I’m disappointed this is some AI thing and not a breadboard company.
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by GPerson 2mo ago
It’s pretty standard insight among the machine learning crowd. This kid founded the effective altruist club at his school. He’s clearly very smart and ambitious, and has leadership qualities, but you don’t have to exaggerate.
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by GPerson 2mo ago
I can’t imagine ever affording such a nice apartment.
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by GPerson 2mo ago
One hesitation I have with this idea is that proofs themselves can be modeled as mathematical objects. So if you have a machine which can construct examples then we just view the proof as an example, and it should be good at constructing th
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by GPerson 2mo ago
The OP is describing my experience. (Result: deferred from MIT, so it was somewhat for nought.)
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by GPerson 2mo ago
There’s a well-known essay from the 90s where Timothy Gowers predicted that the creative/intuitive side of mathematics would be entirely taken over by machines before 2100.
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by GPerson 2mo ago
They’re just going to define terms so that eventually they discover consciousness and then play dumb long enough for us all to get screwed (see Jacob Tsimerman’s scenario 1 if you prefer your alarmism to come from a prestigious source).
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by GPerson 2mo ago
That’s how I feel about AI people taking over the arts and fields like mathematics. For most of them it’s just a neat trick, and maybe there’s some business in there (the OpenAI tik tok clone as an extreme example), but for a huge portion o
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by GPerson 2mo ago
This is just a random pet peeve of mine, but I simply don’t believe knowledge workers who claim to work 90 hour work weeks; this includes bankers and lawyers. I say this because I spend a lot of energy and time thinking about how to increas
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by GPerson 3mo ago
Yea the wording that it was some way or another “for you” came across as aggressiveness so I responded in kind.
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by GPerson 3mo ago
When I was in grad school we talked about the Jacobian conjecture as something that would never be solved, and not really even worth thinking about since it’s impossible. There’s been a lot more big open problems solved by AI than which rea
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by GPerson 3mo ago
Ironically that would be useful data for AI labs to take. It could be used productively to make digital art training material or nefariously to make models to displace those artists.
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by GPerson 3mo ago
Programming has a lot of nice features and accurately capturing them all in a hacker news comment isn’t that easy, so maybe you could have some consideration for that in the future. I also want effects to happen in the world. I also like th
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by GPerson 3mo ago
Another strict positive I’ve had with AI is having it figure out how to deal with bureaucracy. This is dangerous due to privacy issues, but I was seriously depressed for a period, felt like I could not do it, and the AI figured out which ag
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by GPerson 3mo ago
I think there’s a lot of need for people to help others understand how to healthily engage with this technology. I do struggle with turning it off once I get started on it. I also believe I see the future coming very fast. I’ve been addicte
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by GPerson 3mo ago
I actually think that’s a great use of AI, and sounds similar to some of my use cases. “And I think, to be honest, the enjoyment I would have gotten out of the programming part once, was very largely "type-2 fun"- an annoyance fol
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by GPerson 3mo ago
That’s my experience, starting at 10 years old and trying to figure out how the the moving pictures were in the screen. I didn’t say that was the reason though. A person has a lot of wants and needs right? I’m not following why it’s stran
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by GPerson 3mo ago
Well I used to imagine I’d make a business out of the thing. I also would sometimes think the thing could give me professional opportunities.
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by GPerson 3mo ago
I’m not virtue signaling? I’ve shared exactly my experience. People experience reality differently and that’s not some affront on you.
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by GPerson 3mo ago
Those are some good cows.
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by GPerson 3mo ago
For me that’s a slippery slope. It’s not really clear what parts of my hobby project are the good parts and what parts are unfulfilling. When I start including AI too much I end up feeling that none of it is fulfilling. When I do things man
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by GPerson 3mo ago
I’ve also had menial jobs, like most people.
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by GPerson 3mo ago
Programming is nice because you have lots of different scales of structure to think about, and your program slowly comes together. You see it improving over time as a result of your efforts. You also build your skills and learn. It’s really
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by GPerson 3mo ago
This is the most profound comment I’ve ever read on this website. How do we do push the culture in a direction such that productive intellectual pursuits will actually be intrinsically desirable in the AI era?
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by GPerson 3mo ago
Luckily for us all these good natured AI people will liberate us from the necessity of our own value and places like universities, which give us structured environments to participate in intellectual pursuits, will be in high demand.
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by GPerson 3mo ago
It’s almost like a place focused on improving the human should operate differently from a place building commercial products.
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by GPerson 3mo ago
The normalization process for social media involved it stabilizing in a place where a huge number of people know it’s terrible for you.
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by GPerson 3mo ago
Ironically, your post literally does nothing but virtue signal to the people who like AI a lot.
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by GPerson 3mo ago
“Everyone who disagrees with me is a hater and a snob.”
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by GPerson 3mo ago
Cows

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